The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya streams on Netflix and Max. Isao Takahata's final film reimagines Japan's oldest folktale in breathtaking hand-painted, watercolor-and-charcoal animation — a stunningly beautiful, quietly radical piece of art.
About
A humble bamboo cutter finds a tiny girl inside a glowing stalk and raises her with his wife as a gift from heaven; she grows at an uncanny pace into a spirited child who loves the hills, the seasons, and the village kids. When her father moves the family to the capital to make her a proper noble princess, the gilded life meant to honor her slowly smothers the free, joyful girl she was. It's a heartbreaking fable about the cost of gilding a living thing.
Information
- Japanese
- かぐや姫の物語
- Premiered
- November 23, 2013
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 137 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- studio ghibli inc.
- Source
- Other
- Themes
- drama, female protagonist, japanese production, fantasy, speculative fiction, asia
FAQ
It streams on Netflix and Max, with regional availability determining which.
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